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weakening of the magistracy and the resulting ascendancy of the
Senate, 150.


CHAPTER IV

THE MAGISTRACY

General Characteristics of the Magistracy

1. Imperium and potestas, 152. Administrative powers of the magistrates,
152. Military powers, 153. The right to triumph, 156. Powers
exercised in connexion with the people, 158. The contio and the
comitia, 159. Right of acting with the plebs, 161. The right of consulting
the Senate, 161. General powers of the magistrates; the
auspicia, 162. The coercitio, 167. Conflict between the powers of the
magistrates; the obnuntiatio, 172. The right of prohibition, 173.
The intercessio, 176. The civil and criminal responsibility of magistrates,
181. The qualifications for office, 183. The formalities of
candidature and election, 187. The insignia of office, 191.

The Individual Magistracies

2. The dictator, 191. The magister equitum, 195. The consuls, 196.
The praetors, 202. The aediles, 208. The quaestors, 212. The
censors, 216. The plebeian magistrates, 233. The minor magistrates,
234.


CHAPTER V

THE PEOPLE AND ITS POWERS

Legislation, 238. Form of a lex, 242. Control of external matters,
243. Elective powers, 245. Judicial powers, 245. Rescission of
sentences by the people, 248. Remission of outlawry and amnesty,
249. Grounds of invalidity of popular acts, 249. The different comitia;
the comitia curiata, 250. The comitia centuriata and its reorganisation,
252. The comitia tributa, 253. The concilium plebis, 253.
Elections to the religious colleges, 254. Formalities observed in the
meetings of the assemblies, 255.


CHAPTER VI

THE SENATE

Reasons for the growth of the Senate's power, 261. Method of appointment
of senators, 263. External distinctions of senators, 265. Reforms
of Sulla, 266. Rules of initiative and debate in the Senate, 267. The